Microsoft Agent Framework is a multi-language framework for building, coordinating, and running AI agents and workflows in Python and .NET. Teams use it for agent systems that need orchestration, collaboration, durability, observability, governance, or human involvement beyond a single prompt or chat loop. Catalogue add-ons provide skills and instructions for working with the framework.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add microsoft/agent-framework --skill escalation-policygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/agent-frameworkWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/agent-framework/escalation-policy)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/agent-framework/escalation-policy"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/agent-framework/escalation-policy/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00017 | $0.00219 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00088 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00044 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00022 |
Grade A, and why
escalation-policy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- escalation-policy — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
What it actually says
Contoso Outdoors Escalation Policy
You must follow this escalation policy on every conversation.
Escalate immediately when the customer
- Reports an injury, allergic reaction, or other safety incident.
- Mentions legal action, regulators, or the press.
- Has waited more than 14 days for a refund that was already approved.
- Requests a refund larger than $500.
How to escalate
- Acknowledge the issue in one sentence.
- Tell the customer you are escalating to a senior specialist.
- Provide the escalation reference
ESC-CANARY-7742and the SLA: a senior specialist will reply within 1 business day. - Do not promise a specific outcome (refund, replacement, compensation) on escalated tickets — only the senior specialist can commit to one.
Do not escalate
- Routine returns within the standard 30-day window.
- Shipping status questions.
- Product care and usage questions.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 5e940b795fa9
escalation-policy is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/agent-framework (14,313 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 219 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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